Less than a week after a federal court upheld two new Texas abortion requirements already in effect, abortion providers announced plans to file a second lawsuit targeting additional regulations that the Republican-led Legislature passed in July.

The suit that the group plans to file Wednesday in a federal court seeks a court order to block the regulations — which take effect in September — that require abortion facilities to meet the same structural standards as ambulatory surgical centers.

The new abortion regulations have been blamed for the closure of about a dozen abortion clinics in the state, which currently has 24 active ...

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Is it really bad for them to be required to up their care. Really abortions are invasive and people have died because of the substandard care. I lost my child while pregnant in the second semester and had to deliver my child. I started losing too much blood and the same procedures they use for abortion is what they had to do for me. They put me into labor and because I was almost 4 months I couldn't due a DNC and if some goes to a clinic that isn't prepared for the worst the worst can happen.

It doesn't matter how much money the clinics could spend on upgrading their facilities. Since the clinic's doctor has to have admitting privileges at a hospital, and that hospital must be within 30 miles of the clinic, they could have a state-of-the-art clinic and still not be able to remain open. Why? Because hospitals are not willing to grant the doctors admitting privileges. The folks who thought up this legislation - Koch funded think tanks - knew exactly what they were doing.

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Growing up in Texas the only people I knew that got abortions were christians. The new regulations are so laughable. Christian women will still get their abortions while pontificating to poor women about how they will go to hell for having abortions.